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Five years ago, our Connections and Engagement report described Metro Vancouver as a hard place to make friends, our neighbourhood connections as cordial, but weak, and a declining level of participation in community life. In 2017, we wanted to dig deeper. Our new report revisits some old themes to...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Visit our 2016 Vital Signs website and...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: VANCOUVER

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: THOMPSON, CARIBOO,...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: SOUTHERN VANCOUVER...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: RICHMOND

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: OKANAGAN Vernon,...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: NORTH SHORE & SEA...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: NORTHERN INTERIOR...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: NORTHEAST Quesnel,...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: FRASER SOUTH Surrey,...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: FRASER NORTH Pitt...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: FRASER EAST Mission,...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: EAST KOOTENAY...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: COAST GARIBALDI Bowen...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kindsof questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: CENTRAL AND NORTH...

How do people across British Columbia feel about their communities? What are we most concerned about? What are we doing well? Where do we need to improve? These are the kinds of questions Vancouver Foundation explores through our 2016 Vital Signs report. Read our findings for: CENTRAL METRO New...

Our third stakeholder session with multiple grantee organizations was the most highly anticipated session we have held to date. We spent two hours with several representatives of organizations that Vancouver Foundation has funded in the past, and matched their contributions with input from our...

Welcome to our second blog post in a series designed to share our highlights (and some of our challenges) as we move closer to defining our Open Licensing Policy, due to launch in January 2017. As we mentioned before , we are engaging in multiple stakeholder meetings with staff, advisory committee...

Vancouver Foundation is Community Inspired. What this means to us is that community ideas, goals and interests guide us in every aspect of the work we do, and the work that we do is better when community is involved. Every year, through the generous support of our donors, we fund hundreds of...

This report is a result of a journey we began in the summer of 2011. We set out to learn what issue people in metro Vancouver care about the most. The intent was to help us decide where to focus additional energy and resources to have a greater impact in the community. In 2011 we polled 275...

One of the most surprising findings from our Connections and Engagement Survey came from a question that we thought we knew the answer to. We asked people what prevented them from participating in activities that could make their neighbourhood a better place to live. We thought that not having...

We may like to think of youth as a time free of the worries, burdens and sometimes jaded views of adulthood but this is not true of metro Vancouver’s 25 to 34-year-olds. Our survey on Connections and Engagement showed consistently that those in the 25 to 34-year-old age group feel more isolated and...

We spoke to over 100 community leaders, including leaders of Chinese-Canadian organizations and non-profits, and asked them what community issue they thought was the most pressing. People told us that they were very concerned about a growing sense of isolation and disconnection. They said they feel...